Re: GCC Wiki, struggling to make a new user

Re: GCC Wiki, struggling to make a new user

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Hi -

> I'm trying to create a new account for the GCC wiki using the
> account creation page at:
>   http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/HomePage?action=newaccount
> but things are not going well.
> 
> I fill in the form and click create account. After thinking for a
> while the page returns a Gateway Error. [...]

This mirrors the symptoms of other sourceware-hosted moinmoin wikis
that had been overrun with spam users.  We cleaned a bunch of them off
of glibc the other day, basically removing all but the
trusted-editors, and things are much faster.  (Legitimate non-editor
users can create new users, or email to restore their purged info.)

Are y'all interested in the same treatment for the gcc wiki?


- FChE

Re: GCC Wiki, struggling to make a new user

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 5 February 2014 14:25, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Hi -
>
>> I'm trying to create a new account for the GCC wiki using the
>> account creation page at:
>>   http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/HomePage?action=newaccount
>> but things are not going well.
>>
>> I fill in the form and click create account. After thinking for a
>> while the page returns a Gateway Error. [...]
>
> This mirrors the symptoms of other sourceware-hosted moinmoin wikis
> that had been overrun with spam users.  We cleaned a bunch of them off
> of glibc the other day, basically removing all but the
> trusted-editors, and things are much faster.  (Legitimate non-editor
> users can create new users, or email to restore their purged info.)
>
> Are y'all interested in the same treatment for the gcc wiki?

Someone (I think it was you :-)  already locked it down some time ago
to combat a spam attack.

These are the trusted editors:
http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/EditorGroup

Re: GCC Wiki, struggling to make a new user

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 5 February 2014 14:39, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On 5 February 2014 14:25, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
>> Hi -
>>
>>> I'm trying to create a new account for the GCC wiki using the
>>> account creation page at:
>>>   http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/HomePage?action=newaccount
>>> but things are not going well.
>>>
>>> I fill in the form and click create account. After thinking for a
>>> while the page returns a Gateway Error. [...]
>>
>> This mirrors the symptoms of other sourceware-hosted moinmoin wikis
>> that had been overrun with spam users.  We cleaned a bunch of them off
>> of glibc the other day, basically removing all but the
>> trusted-editors, and things are much faster.  (Legitimate non-editor
>> users can create new users, or email to restore their purged info.)
>>
>> Are y'all interested in the same treatment for the gcc wiki?
>
> Someone (I think it was you :-)  already locked it down some time ago
> to combat a spam attack.
>
> These are the trusted editors:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/EditorGroup

Oh I misread, sorry. You mean deleting all non-editor users?
Since they're effectively read-only at the moment, and could just
recreate their account if they want to, I see no reason not to purge
them.